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By Frederick Rivara, MD, MPH. Rivara is President of Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR). Dr. Rivara holds the Children’s Guild Association Endowed Chair in Pediatrics, and is a University of Washington professor of pediatrics and an adjunct professor of epidemiology. He is also Editor of JAMA Pediatrics.

Frederick Rivara, MD, MPH

More than 400 public health researchers and practitioners participated in the 2013 National Meeting of the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR) and Safe States Alliance. Hosted in Baltimore by the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, this event focused on how research and practice have contributed to reducing injury and violence in this country over the last twenty years while at the same time calling attention to the pressing needs of today and tomorrow.

Speakers provided compelling examples of how investments in the science of injury prevention and control have paid off in lives saved. For instance, the tools of epidemiology were instrumental in establishing the heightened risk of death among infants in the years before car seats were mandatory – in fact, epidemiologists, physicians, and advocates working together used that science to change laws and educate parents so that today using infant car seats is almost universal in the United States. Continue reading →